Past events
Fellows seminar - The role of music in Romani genocide commemoration

By Siv Lie, 2023 Fellow Ambivalence and appropriateness in musical approaches to Romani genocide commemoration This talk explores recent findings of my Fellowship project, which examines...[more]
Fellows seminar - Unravelling the regulation of gene expression & The link between immune cells and growth

At this joint life sciences seminar, two pioneering USIAS projects that were carried out at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) in Strasbourg will be presented. The...[more]
USIAS Annual Symposium - The Future of Surgery
The speaker for the 2024 edition of the symposium is Jacques Marescaux, professor of surgery, Founding President of the Research Institute against Digestive Cancer (IRCAD) and USIAS Chair of...[more]
Seminar - Dressing for work in the scientific world

By Dr. Françoise Waquet, Director of Research emerita at the CNRS Dressing for work in the scientific world Wearing gloves for a surgical operation or for a procedure in a biology laboratory is now...[more]
Public lecture - Speaking together: Orality in the service of interdisciplinarity

Dr Françoise Waquet, historian, director of research emeritus at the CNRS and guest at USIAS, will give the introductory lecture at the MISHA's annual symposium, entitled "Speaking together: orality...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Studying the use of words to decipher representations of nature and people in first millennium China

By Marie Bizais-Lillig, 2021 Fellow The Chinese Knowledge in Poetry (CHI-KNOW-PO) project mainly focuses on Chinese texts of the first millennium beyond genre distinction. Based on the understanding...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Deep learning-driven identification and behavioral-physiological responses of Humboldt penguins to an intruder

By Yvon Le Maho and Víctor Planas-Bielsa, 2022 Fellows Using the famous silhouette that appeared as either a hawk or a goose depending upon its direction of movement, Konrad Lorenz and Nicolas...[more]
Lecture by Serge Haroche during International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP)

Professor Serge Haroche, from the Collège de France and the École normale supérieure of Paris, will give a public lecture on Saturday 6 July 2024, entitled “The usefulness of useless knowledge:...[more]